James Roberts

The Coyote (Dodo Press) James Roberts

"The sign on the tree attracted the man's attention while he was still far down the slope. He could see the tall pine on the crest of the ridge above a veritable landmark in that country of stunted timber, and the square of paper, tacked to its trunk under the lowest branches, gleamed white against the background of vivid green. The air was clear, and every detail of the landscape--the red rocks, the saffroncolored slopes, the green pines and firs and buck brush, the white cliffs-- everything within sight for miles stood out, clean-cut in the brilliant sunshine which flooded the empty land under a cloudless sky. "